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Leaves
Broad and large, their leaves have drip tips with a waxy leathery or hairy texture. The drip tips drain off rainwater. During hot and dry seasons, trees shed their leaves to overcome drought. 


 



Flowers and Fruits
Many of the tree species flower and bear fruit during dry season while they are leafless.


  

credits: http://www.slideshare.net/wong_teck_kiong_nicholas/tropical-forests-3n-elective-geography
           & google images.

Structure of the Forest

Overview

It has three vertical layers unlike Tropical Rainforest, which has five. This is because the trees found in the Monsoon forest are not as tall the ones found in Tropical Rainforest as it lack of water during the dry seasons.

Canopy layer

The height ranges from 25m to 30m. Unlike tropical rainforest, the trees in the monsoon rainforest are more spread out.Plants such as creepers, vines, epiphytes and parasite plant can be found there.


             Creeper

                  Vines

               Epiphytes

           parasite plants
Understorey layer

They are about 15m in height

Undergrowth

It is less dense during the dry season. However during the wet season grasses and bamboo thickets grow densely there.


             bamboo thrickets



Credits : http://www.google.com/